Hello, welcome to episode 1488 of The Sleeper in the Bus. It is Friday, March 20th. I'm your host, Paul Sporer. Join this afternoon by Joe O'Riko and Justin Mason. Gentlemen, good day. What's going on, fellas? We are less than a week away from baseball. That's correct. We were a week yesterday. It's so close. Now, don't we have like a one-off game on? Is it?

Giant's Yankees, baby. Wednesday night. So we were even closer than a week yesterday when we said that, Justin. Yeah, technically.

So yeah, I mean, it's here, folks.

And we have the big draft weekend coming up.

We talked a little bit about it yesterday, Joe.

You know, we got our big Sunday draft that we're going to be doing.

We'll all be together on Justin's stream on YouTube. I have my main event on Saturday. And come check that out on Twitch. We're going to get into our final run of pitchers and we're going to go through a ton. Obviously, if you see this list, if you're looking at the rundown somewhere, we can't cover all of them. There's just no way, but we're going to go through cover as many as we can.

I got to be honest i don't even know if we're going to timestamp it i'm sorry folks on this one i think since we're going to just be bouncing around like within these tier groupings maybe i can do that i can i can timestamp the tier grouping because people will be bouncing around i I'm going to ask Joe and Justin who they like from this group and they might not go in the order we got. So that's what I'll do. We'll get into it right now. We got good last year. That one's pretty straightforward. Guys who were good last year. What's up this year? Post hype, again, pretty straightforward. they've had hype before and it's kind of building back and are we buying into it

prospects i did cheat here i don't know if roguer Again, pretty straightforward. They've had hype before. And it's kind of building back and are we buying into it?

Prospects. I did cheat here. I don't know if Roki is technically still a prospect.

Okay. And I know that like he would be, he would be traditional. Like he was on traditional lists last year because he came over the, the quote unquote normal route.

He didn't come over in that special route where he's been, you know, where he's not on

prospect list. But anyway, yeah, you pitched enough last year to be off it. But I put him there because I didn't have a better category for him and we're all just going to say we don't like them anyway. And then we got the veterans another very self-explanatory category. are really injured guys, they're currently hurt or nursing back from injury. In the case of

Braxton Garrett, I don't think he's actually actively hurt right now, but he was sent out just before the show started. So we're dealing with him as somebody coming back. And then bounce backs guys who were good recently. Some as recently as two years ago, others maybe a little bit further back, and then a group of KBOers at the end.

Four guys, all with a little bit of intrigues, so I want to get your thoughts there, even though it's all the way at the end. Let's start with the guys who were good last year. That's going to be Ryan Nelson, Braxton Ashcraft, Mike Burroughs, Chad Patrick, Noah Cameron, Casey Meis, Will Warren, Jacob Blatz, Shane Smith, Simmelwoods, Richardson, at least in the second half, and then Justin Robleski, and I put River

Ryan here, he went to Cameron, Casey Mize, Will Warren, Jacob Blatz, Shane Smith, Simmelidge, Richardson, at least in the second

half, and then Justin Rebleski. And I put River Ryan here. He was not good last, he didn't pitch last year, but I tagged him on with Robleski just because didn't have a better category for him, and this was easiest. So, Joe, let's start with you, your favorite off rip here. Who's somebody in this category that you're consistently going for.

Well, I promise I'm not just taking the name at the top of the sheet, but Ryan Nelson. favorite off rip here. Who's somebody in this category that you're consistently going for?

Well, I promise I'm not just taking the name at the top of the sheet, but Ryan Nelson,

I've fallen in love with Ryan Nelson, and I think he's the best starting pitcher that the Diamondbacks have at this point. He was really good last year from the surface and below the

surface. 339 ERA, 3755. The Sierra was a little bit higher at 407.

That's fine.

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